Thursday, March 15, 2012

Could Air Pollution Be Making People Fat?

I don't know this seems like more global warming stuff, but using fat people to advance the cause...

Steadily rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be affecting brain chemistry, increasing appetite and contributing to the obesity epidemic, according to a new hypothesis, which still awaits rigorous testing and inevitable debate.

The idea proposes that breathing in extra CO2 makes blood more acidic, which in turn causes neurons that regulate appetite, sleep and metabolism to fire more frequently. As a result, we might be eating more, sleeping less and gaining more weight, partly as a result of the air we breathe.

Major studies are in the works to test the hypothesis, which is still very much in the what-if stage. But if the link pans out, the research would offer yet another reason to reduce the CO2 we produce, while also potentially inspiring new obesity treatments.

Wouldn't that mean that people in metro cities would be far fatter then ones in rural and more remote areas? At least this time they aren't blaming the fat people for global warming, remember when they said we were causing them to have to use more gas on airplanes and have turned it around.

I consider global warming a hoax, this year is warm but we froze until May last year. Of course last year in the news, they stuck to the term "climate change" as we dug through a foot of snow, now that we are having a warm spell, they are calling it GLOBAL WARMING again...

Wish they'd make their minds up...

That said, I had an asthma doctor tell me once that people with asthma/COPD, could see their metabolisms drop and have problems losing weight or not gaining because they weren't being oxygenated as well. I can agree that the world is far more polluted, that is for sure, Co2 levels or not.

2 comments:

Yes I agree with that air pollution make us fat.When we breathing in extra CO2 makes blood more acidic, which in turn causes neurons that regulate appetite, sleep and metabolism to fire more frequently. As a result, we might be eating more, sleeping less and gaining more weight, partly as a result of the air we breathe. Steadily rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be affecting brain chemistry, increasing appetite and contributing to the obesity epidemic. So we should support Air clean societies and organization. PALS is a ‘Pure Air Lovers Society’ working for preventing air pollution. For more detail visit: www.pals.in.

I also know of studies that say,a very stressful,manufacturing-technical society, causes people to be fat.WHY? they proved that one way to eliviate stress, is by being heavier.the fat human body handles the stress better.

I think that's a good theory;the way to judge it is,look at societies that have adopted this "hi-stress-manufacturing-tech.-mode",and see a before and after picture; were they thinner before?do those people tend to be fatter,with the new,manufactur-tech.-society now?example: not so many Americans used to be so overweight, until contemporary times; our ancestors in the US used to be trimmer.

I have old pictures of my mom's family,mostly farmers; few fat people, not even elderly.(I'm 64).And they ate hearty food too.(course,farming then was physically strenuous.)Plus, the FOOD ITSELF WAS BETTER.few amateurs cook that well any more!!some people think because our food now tastes so inferior,we eat more of it.i believe that!!look at the French;they eat smaller portions,but try to have the food TASTE BETTER.

no one has mentioned the food itself;FOOD has changed,even the ingredients.i hate chicken,over-used,non-flavorful, chicken tasted different way back.ask a very old person.they'll tell you, their old family were better cooks too.